Pretend Somebody Quotes by Dennis DeYoung

I'm proud of the body of work I was part of and I want people to enjoy it as long as they choose to.

— Dennis DeYoung

Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.

— Dennis DeYoung

Many musicals you can take and throw in the garbage can because no one took the time to write a song you can care…

— Dennis DeYoung

If you're in rock 'n' roll, you're not supposed to admit to liking theatre stuff, but I'm a big theatregoer.

— Dennis DeYoung

I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life.

— Dennis DeYoung

I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a…

— Dennis DeYoung

If you think marriage is gonna be easy, don't do it because when there are children involved, you screw up the rest of society.

— Dennis DeYoung

I just believed in 1979 that prog rock was finished. I just saw the handwriting on the wall. And I believed that if we…

— Dennis DeYoung

To be successful in your life, you have to be convinced in your own mind that you have the ability to accomplish your goals.

— Dennis DeYoung

How lucky am I? I'll go to Naperville and people will come up to me and thank me for coming to Naperville. That's how…

— Dennis DeYoung

Technology has made music ultimately more democratic.

— Dennis DeYoung

If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx…

— Dennis DeYoung

Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music.

— Dennis DeYoung

I love Styx as much as I could love anything in my life. I started playing in the band when I was 14 years…

— Dennis DeYoung

I think the music business is as crass and as unrewarding as it has ever been.

— Dennis DeYoung